Fountain-comb.



A. PELSTRING.

FOUNTAIN 00MB,

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1913.

1,119,868, Patented Deo. 8,1914.

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ANTHONY PELSTRING, OFMOUNT CARMEL, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 CLARA J. KRAFT, OF PHILAIDELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FOUNTAIN-CDMB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 191.4.

Application filed November 25,1913. Serial No. 802,890.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, ANTHONY PELSTRING,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Carmel, in the county of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fountain-Combs, of which the following is a specification.

A My invention relates to improvements in fountain combs, the object of the invention being to provide a comb provided at in tervals between the teeth of the comb with liquid receptacles or fonts having springpressed valves opened by pressure of the device against the scalp, so that in operation the liquid contents of the receptacles `are permitted to flow onto the scalp between the teeth of the comb and at the roots of the hair, so that in manipulating the comb, the teeth will engage the scalp and thoroughly mpregnate the scalp and the roots of the hair with the liquid discharged from the receptacles or fonts.

A further object is to provide an improved construction of valve which is capable of adjustment on the stem of the valve to regulate thc opening movement of the valve and consequently control the flow of liquid therefrom.

A further object is to provide improved caps screwed onto the ends of the recep-` tacles or fonts to prevent accidental operation of the valves.

Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter1 described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a View in side elevation illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a View in section on an enlarged scale on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 showing the valve protecting cap screwed into place on the receptacle. Fig. Il is a view in elevation of the valve and its stem.

l represents a circular comb having at one edge a series of parallel teeth 2, and between the teeth at intervals, receptacles 8 are provided. These receptacles 3 are preferably cylindrical in form and integral with the comb 1. The receptacles 3 at their lower ends, which are positioned slightly above the free ends of the teeth 2, are of general truncated conical form as shown at L and closed by conical valves 5 which have central scrcw-thrczuled openings (i receiving the screw-threaded lower end 7 of the valve stem 8. The valve stem projects through the conical open lower end of the receptable and below the plane of the free ends of the teeth, so that when the comb is pressed against the scalp, the valve stem will be moved upwardly to lift the valve 5 from its seat and allow the liquid indicated at 9 to 'flow out into position to be acted upon by the teeth as will hereinafter appear. The upper ends of the receptacles 3 which are preferably flush with the upper edge of the comb are internally screw-threaded to receive the externally screw-threaded lower ends of removable covers 1,0 which extend above the upper edge of the comb. The stems 8 of the valves project above the upper ends of the receptacles and are made angular at their upper ends as shown at 13 to receive a wrench or to be grasped between the lingers and turned to adjust the valves longitudinally of the stems. Coiled springs 12 are positioned around the stems 8. These coiled springs bear at their lower ends against the valves, and at their upper ends against the covers 10, and these springs may be pressed downwardly to hold the valves against turning movement, while the stems are turned to adjust them, but ordinarily the valves will engage in the lower ends of the receptacles with suflicient friction to permit them to be adjusted without removing them from the receptacles. By projecting the stems 8 above the upper ends of the receptacles, this operation of adjustment is facilitated, and the valves may be thus readily adjusted to permit the escape of the proper amount of liquid without removing the valves from their receptacles.

Each receptacle 3 near its lower end is formed with an annular shoulder 14, and below this shoulder 14, each receptacle is preferably screw-threaded as shown at 15 to receive the threaded open end of a cap 1G which confines the lower end of the receptacle and prevents possibility of aceideutally moving the valve. These caps are in position only when the device is not in use, and are removed when the device is in operation.

W'ith my improvements it is simply necessary to press the comb against the scalp when all of the valves 5 will be opened, and the liquid in the receptacles will flow onto the scalp between the teeth of the comb. portant because the teeth immediately force the liquid into the scalp and around the roots of the hair, and by adjusting the valves, they may be so controlled as to allow just the proper amount of liquid to ilow out that can be manipulated by the teeth of the comb so that there will be no excess or liquid and no waste.

'While l have set forth whatl believe to be a preferred arrangement of parts, l would have it understood that l do not limit mysell to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as :fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a circular comb having in one edge aseries of integral teeth, said comb having a circular series of integral receptacles, said receptacles located in parallelism with and in the same circular path as the teeth, and having their lower ends terminating in a plane above the lower ends of the teeth, hollow covers removably secured to the upper ends of the receptacles and projecting above the upper edge of the comb, valves in the lower ends of the receptacles having screwthreaded openings therethrough, stems having threaded engagement with the openings in the valves, said stems projecting below the valves and inl a position to be moved when the teeth of the comb are rllhis arrangement of parts is kim-V same circular path as the teeth, and having their lower ends terminating in aplane above the lower ends of the teeth, hollow covers removably secured to the upper ends of the receptacles and projecting above the upper edge or the comb, valves in the lower ends or' the p receptacles having screwthreaded openings therethrough, stems having threaded engagement with the openings in the valves, said stems projecting below the valves and in a position to be moved when the teeth of the comb are pressed against an object,'said stems projecting beyond the upper ends of the receptacles and confined within the covers whereby they;

may be adjusted when the covers are removed, and coiled springs around the stems pressing at one end against the valves and at their other ends against the upper ends ot the covers, substantially as described.

ln testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specilication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANTHONY PELSTRING. lVitnesses Vieron LONG, M. D. MARWINE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for :five cents each, by addressing' the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C." 

